This module is designed to provide students with opportunities to review, develop and practice the English language systems and skills required to successfully participate in an undergraduate degree program.

This course offers students a broad introduction to the skills involved in acquiring information and in displaying knowledge to others. It includes the basic knowledge and skills required to successfully participate in an undergraduate degree program and to operate effectively in a professional context.

This course examines drawing as a primary mode of observation and communication. Through practical studios, students will be introduced to drawing media and processes, developing a comprehensive portfolio of outcomes and strategies to contribute to their professional design practice.

This course introduces 3D design principles through practical activities including drawing for design skills, studio modelling skills and spatial reasoning. Students develop a design process that applies creativity, research skills and spatial understanding to solve diverse design problems.

Visual communication is a powerful force to drive new ideas – and obtaining access to the tools that ‘make media’ is an integral part of a perpetually changing world. It has the power to influence society (think: body image, sexualised imagery, consumerism) and environment (think: greenwashing, property development, transport industries) and culture (think: political campaigns, volunteerism, social media).

This module is designed to provide students with opportunities to review, develop and practice the English language systems and skills required to successfully participate in an undergraduate degree program.

This course provides an intellectual foundation in key concepts and approaches in design. It draws on work in design thinking, creativity studies, philosophy of technology and sociology. Critical and analytical approaches are introduced that help contextualise design activities.

This course provides an overview of current developments in the emerging field of interactive digital media. The course explores the relationship between contemporary practices and their precedents and introduces a range of ideation strategies that engage problem-solving skills through digital technologies. The course grounds this knowledge in practical activities that combine hardware, software and physical materials into working interactive media prototypes. Students will connect theoretical topics and conceptual problems to their own works and will demonstrate their understanding through both written and practical interactive media tasks.

This first-year course critically examines design history and theory. Design history, in its traditional form, focuses on design movements, designers and the materiality of the design object and the ways in which it connects to production and consumption, integrated into circulated systems of meaning. The course distinguishes between the concepts and historical figures of the past to frame and inform the key themes influencing art and design theory, practice and culture – today and in the future. The relation between design and its place in history, why the designer needs such knowledge and how they need to employ it in future practice will be examined.

This course will assist students to foster a sense of career direction, purpose and aspiration. It will raise awareness of possible career options and how to plan future studies to increase employability. Students will develop a positive and professional graduate identity by building a sense of proficiency, leadership, and resilience.